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Canada has an extensive range of research centres, food incubators, accelerators and labs supporting food and beverage innovation through the research they do and/or the services they offer. Each week throughout 2023, we highlighted an organization that’s supporting food innovation in Canada.  

To help make it easier to find a resource, here’s a list of all 50 of those organizations by region. 

Atlantic Canada 

Canada’s Smartest Kitchen 

Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development  

David Sobey Centre 

BioFoodTech 

Emergence 

NRC Marine Research Station 

Perennia Food and Agriculture Corporation 

Propel 

RPC Science & Engineering 

Verschuren Centre 

Quebec 

Ontario 

Caddle 

Canada's Advanced Manufacturing Cluster 

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security 

Centre for Natural Products and Medical Cannabis 

Cultivated B Canada 

Cyber Science Lab 

Fanshawe College Centre for Research and Innovation  

Food and Beverage Innovation Centre at Niagara College 

Food Innovation & Research Studio (FIRSt), George Brown College 

GreenCentre Canada 

Meat Science Lab at the University of Guelph  

Walker Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre 

Prairies 

Ag-West Bio  

Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative (EMILI) 

Food Processing Development Centre

Prairie Research Kitchen 

Richardson Centre for Food Technology and Research 

Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre 

Technology Access Centre for Aerospace & Manufacturing (TACAM), Red River College 

Venturepark Labs 

BC 

Alacrity Cleantech 

BC Food Hub Network 

BC Beverage Technology Access Centre 

BC Food & Beverage Association 

Centre of Seafood Innovation at Vancouver Island University  

Food and Agricultural Institute, University of the Fraser Valley 

Good to Grow 

Innovate BC 

Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC 

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